Scheduled Outages

Scheduled Maintenance

pylesej — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:01:37 -0600

ITS will be performing UPS maintenance on Sunday, 11/22, between 12:00 AM and 1:00 AM. During this time the following systems will be briefly unavailable while they are moved to a different UPS.

Vidconf-gk (gatekeeper)
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Exchange Server Maintenance

pylesej — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:55:42 -0600

ITS will be installing Microsoft patches on Vmail (Exchange 2007) and Office Communications Servers between 8:00 PM, Friday, 11/20 and 2:00 AM, Saturday, 11/21. During this time there will be brief rolling outages while servers are rebooted.

Scheduled Maintenance

pylesej — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:37:34 -0600

ITS will be installing Microsoft patches on Sunday, 11/15,between the hours of 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM. During this time, thefollowing systems will experience rolling outages while servers are rebooted.

* apphost1a

* apphost2

* epo

* ITS hosted SharePoint sites

* Magic

* VUspacegroups

DHCP Disaster Recovery Testing

pylesej — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:12 -0600

ITS plans to perform DHCP disaster recover testing onWednesday, 11/11, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM. DHCP servicemay be degraded during this time but no outages are expected.

OWA Connection Problems to Vmail

pylesej — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53:02 -0600

The Vmail system is experiencing intermittent connectionissues using Outlook Web Access (OWA) via http://owa.vanderbilt.edu and http://email.vanderbilt.edu.Connections through http://email.mc.vanderbilt.edu arenot affected. ITS is working diligently to resolve this issue.

ITS Scheduled Maintenance

casteen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:56:57 -0500

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Epassword Identity Manager (IDM) service on Sunday, November 11, between the hours of 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM. During this time, the ability to change or create new Epasswords will be briefly unavailable (~3 minutes).

IDM Firewall upgrade

casteen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:58:00 -0500

Beginning Friday, October 30 at 9:00 PM until Saturday, October 31 at 2:00 AM, ITS will be replacing the existing "IDM" firewalls with a more robust upgraded new pair of firewalls. This is a replacement of equipment and involves no changes to the network (re: IP addressing, network configurations, etc). As such, no changes are needed to any services behind the firewalls, or to any systems that access services behind the firewalls.

Exchange Environment Maintenance

casteen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:16 -0500

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Exchange 2007 environment on Thursday, 29, between the hours of 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM. During this time, name resolution will be impacted for ~5 minutes and users will be unable to search the Global Address List (GAL).

Virtual Environment Maintenance

casteen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:56 -0500

ITS will be performing maintenance on the Virtual Center Management Service (VCMS) environment on Tuesday, October 27, between the hours of 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM. During this time, VCMS access will be unavailable.

ITS Scheduled Maintenance

casteen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:14 -0500

ITS will be applying Microsoft security patches to the Unified Communications and Exchange servers beginning 10:00 PM Friday, October 23 and ending 2:00 AM Saturday, October 24. During this time there will be brief, rolling outages as these servers are rebooted.